Underplayed Gems

Paper Mario: Dark Star Edition (2021)

Paper Mario: Dark Star Edition cover
Developer
ShadeBlade
Platforms
Nintendo 64
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Main story
about 28 hours
Where to get it
Website
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How it feels

A Paper Mario mod adding new content and Dark Souls-level difficulty for hardened RPG fans.

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About

Paper Mario: Dark Star Edition is a mod for Paper Mario created by ShadeBlade that adds a lot of new content to the game and increases the difficulty. Some of the content (various badge and enemy sprites and maps) was taken from Master Quest, but most of it is entirely new. This mod is meant to be about as difficult as Master Quest Jr, but there are badges that increase the health and damage of enemies.

Screenshots

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